US7523818B2 - Vibration damper with amplitude-selective damping force - Google Patents

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US7523818B2
US7523818B2 US11/296,078 US29607805A US7523818B2 US 7523818 B2 US7523818 B2 US 7523818B2 US 29607805 A US29607805 A US 29607805A US 7523818 B2 US7523818 B2 US 7523818B2
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16F—SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; MEANS FOR DAMPING VIBRATION
    • F16F9/00—Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium
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    • F16F9/50—Special means providing automatic damping adjustment, i.e. self-adjustment of damping by particular sliding movements of a valve element, other than flexions or displacement of valve discs; Special means providing self-adjustment of spring characteristics
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  • the invention pertains to a vibration damper with amplitude-selective damping force which includes a cylinder containing a damping medium, a piston rod which is axially movable in the cylinder, and a piston assembly arranged for axial movement in the damping medium, the piston assembly being connected to the piston rod and dividing the cylinder into a working space around the piston rod and a working space opposite the piston rod.
  • the piston assembly includes a piston body having connecting channels for opposite directions of flow between the working spaces, and valve disks which open the channels in respective opposite directions.
  • a pilot assembly includes an axially movable shifting ring which controls a flow connection between the working spaces as a function of movement of the piston rod.
  • a vibration damper with amplitude-selective or stroke dependent damping force is known from U.S. Pat. No. 5,823,306.
  • a piston arrangement which comprises a lower and an upper valve, which are kept a certain distance apart by a spacer.
  • the two sides of each of the two valves is equipped with damping valve disks and at least one nonreturn valve disk.
  • a shifting ring which is free to move axially back and forth, is installed between the two valves; depending on the direction in which the piston rod is moving, this ring comes to rest against one or the other of the two facing valve disks of the two valves and thus releases or blocks an annular gap between the valve disks and the inside wall of the cylinder.
  • Each of the two valves is provided with a pilot cross section in the area of the nonreturn valve disk and another in the area of the damping valve disk; damping medium flows through these pilot cross sections at a rate which is a function of the position reached by the axially movable shifting ring.
  • the throttling effects of the pilot cross sections in the valve disks are superimposed on each other and thus determine the damping force.
  • This valve design seems comparatively complicated and expensive as a result of the large number of valve disks which are used.
  • the manufacturing tolerances of the two pilot cross sections which act in parallel, can have a negative effect on their functionality.
  • the two valves furthermore, must be equipped with piston rings; although these do not appear in the drawing, the expert knows that it is necessary to provide them, because the annular gap between the inside wall of the cylinder and the valve is considerably larger than the pilot cross section.
  • Two piston rings not only represent a cost problem but can also cause undesirable variations in the damping force.
  • FIGS. 7-10 of U.S. Pat. No. 5,823,306 pertain to a variant in which the shifting ring is free to move between the top surface of a valve disk and a cup-shaped housing, which is clamped between a spring catch and the piston rod.
  • this variant there are again two pilot cross sections, which go into effect when the axially movable ring is in the let-through position.
  • GB 2 328 999 describes an amplitude-selective vibration damper with a piston ring which is designed with freedom of axial movement in a groove in the piston.
  • the disadvantage of this solution is that an individually dimensioned piston must be used for each damping force characteristic within the range of the amplitude-dependent damping force.
  • the task of the present invention is to realize a vibration damper with amplitude-selective damping force which uses as many standardizable components as possible and which can be used for as many different damping force characteristics as possible.
  • the two stop surfaces are provided by an assembly which is independent of both the piston body and the valve disks.
  • the great advantage of the invention is that a standard piston body and a standard set of valve disks can be used. This offers a considerable cost advantage, because not only many of the essential parts but also the assembly jigs can be standard items.
  • the independent assembly is a simple additional part, which can be selected and incorporated as a function of the specific design of the vibration damper.
  • the assembly has a sleeve-like base body.
  • the available space is efficiently utilized, and in addition the fabrication jigs already available for piston bodies, for example, can be used for the machining operations.
  • the sleeve-like base body has ring-shaped webs, on which the stop surfaces for the shifting ring are provided.
  • the shifting ring can move axially between the ring-shaped webs, and as a result the radial guidance of the shifting ring is much better than that offered by the solutions according to the state of the art.
  • the piston body has a centering device for the assembly.
  • the assembly When mounted on the piston body, the assembly will thus assume its optimal position. This also means that it will be impossible for any clamping effects to occur between the assembly and inside wall of the cylinder.
  • the sleeve-like base body consists of several parts, where the joint line is located axially between the stop surfaces.
  • a base body of this type can be manufactured very easily by the sintering technique because of the ease with which the parts can be removed from the mold.
  • the joint line for one of the subsections can even be located in the area of a stop surface.
  • a first subsection of the sleeve-like base body axially overlaps a second subsection and is connected to it by a press-fit.
  • the assembly is sealed off against the piston body by at least one seal.
  • the piston body should have a certain minimum length, and the annular gap between the piston body and the inside wall of the cylinder should be as small as possible. This is especially true for a piston body which must also transmit transverse forces in the vibration damper as in the case of a damper in the form of a MacPherson strut unit.
  • the narrow annular gap through which the damping medium flows to the connection proceeding toward the shifting ring has a considerable effect on the damping force characteristic of the piston arrangement. This effect varies, however, with the temperature of the damping medium.
  • the lateral surface of the piston body is provided with at least one axial groove, which leads to the flow connection between the two working spaces.
  • One axial groove does not measurably impair the effectiveness with which the piston arrangement is guided, but it is enough to compensate for the changes in the viscosity of the damping medium, which are thus no longer able to cause any change in the damping force.
  • the piston arrangement is also provided with a throttle ring, which determines at least one first pilot cross section.
  • the desired damping force characteristic is easier to reproduce if such a ring is provided.
  • the throttle ring is designed with freedom of axial movement within certain limits and determines one or another of two pilot cross sections of different sizes, depending on the direction in which the throttle ring moves.
  • a larger damping force can be produced when the piston rod or throttle ring is traveling outward than when the piston rod is traveling inward.
  • the throttle ring is designed with the freedom to move axially in a throttle ring groove in the assembly. It thus represents a separate part which can be installed together with the assembly, independently of the other components of the piston arrangement.
  • the shifting ring determines a pilot cross section supplemental to that determined by the throttle ring.
  • This supplemental cross section goes into effect when the shifting ring makes contact with one of the stop surfaces.
  • the pilot cross section of the throttle ring is not simply blocked, nor is the piston arrangement or a second flow route hermetically sealed or closed; on the contrary, a pilot cross section which goes into effect under these conditions is determined by the shifting ring.
  • the pilot cross section which is determined by the throttle ring is larger than the pilot cross section which goes into effect upon contact of the shifting ring with a stop surface.
  • the pilot cross sections can be designed in a wide variety of ways.
  • the pilot cross sections can be provided in the throttle ring and/or in the shifting ring. This option is especially advisable when the throttle or shifting ring is produced by primary forming.
  • the pilot cross sections can also be designed in the form of diameter reductions, grooves, or recesses in the outside diameter. This method is also easy to realize by machining.
  • pilot cross sections can be formed as recesses in the stop surfaces.
  • the ring can be enclosed in a carrier ring, which comes to rest against the stop surfaces.
  • the sleeve-like base body is preferably fixed in place on the piston rod by a retaining disk. So that the damping valve function of the piston arrangement is not impeded, the retaining disk is provided with at least one through-opening for the damping medium.
  • the retaining disk can be designed as an integral part of the sleeve-like base body. This variant is especially sturdy and also very easy to manage.
  • the inventive assembly can be held together separately from the clamped-together components of the piston arrangement, which is held together by a piston nut.
  • This design means that the piston arrangement is a completely independent unit and can be assembled separately.
  • a conventional piston damping valve is mounted on, and fastened to, the piston rod.
  • the assembly is installed. This embodiment is especially effective in the case of damping valves which must be tested for functional accuracy during the assembling operations.
  • the assembly can be held in place by the piston nut, or a separate fastening nut just for the assembly can be used.
  • a separate fastening nut just for the assembly can be used.
  • At least one pilot cross section for the throttle ring is formed by a washer.
  • a washer This measure offers the advantages that a very simple cross section can be provided for the throttle ring and that there is no need to stamp a groove into the throttle ring.
  • washers are very simple parts, which can be fabricated with great precision.
  • At least one pilot cross section for the shifting ring can also be formed by a washer.
  • a pilot cross section for the throttle ring and a pilot cross section for the shifting ring can be formed by an intermediate ring.
  • the washers should always assume a defined installation position. For this reason, the minimum of one washer is clamped between the two axial parts of the sleeve-like base body.
  • the base body and the retaining disk are two separate components.
  • a clamping sleeve it is also possible for a clamping sleeve to hold the minimum of one washer in a position which is concentric to the sleeve-like base body.
  • the shifting ring can arrive at its end position at high speed. This can generate noise, which can be damped by at least one spring element.
  • the spring element should be designed to occupy as little space as possible, so that the assembly, especially the sleeve-like base body, will be compact in the axial direction. For this reason, the spring element is formed by a spring washer.
  • the spring washer is provided with at least one cutout which is larger than the pilot cross section controlled by the shifting ring. The goal is to prevent the spring washer from determining the effective pilot cross section.
  • the retaining disk is provided with a fastening flange for the sleeve-like base body. This design principle facilitates the use of a clamping sleeve on the sleeve-like base body.
  • a threaded connection can be provided between the fastening flange and the sleeve-like base body.
  • a defined pilot cross section is specified for almost every type of vibration damper.
  • a pilot cross sections is, in principle, comparatively small and must therefore be made very precisely. Manufacturing tolerances have the effect of changing the damping force characteristic of the vibration damper.
  • a pilot cross section which cooperates with the throttle ring and is also adjustable can correct for these tolerances or can be used with identical components to realize different pilot cross sections.
  • the pilot cross section is formed by two components which are adjustable with respect to each other. One component is formed by the piston body, the other by the assembly.
  • the throttle ring groove has a control opening, which can be covered by a control slide to form the adjustable pilot cross section.
  • the pilot cross section can be determined by displacing the control opening with respect to the control slide.
  • the control slide has a pocket, which is connected to the flow connection leading to the shifting ring.
  • the pilot cross section on the throttle ring and the effective pilot cross section on the shifting ring are connected functionally in series with each other.
  • FIGS. 1-4 show sections of a vibration damper with the shifting ring in various positions
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 show the assembly with a one-piece retaining disk
  • FIG. 7 shows the stop surfaces with pilot cross sections
  • FIG. 8 shows the shifting ring enclosed in a carrier ring
  • FIG. 9 shows an assembly fastened by a piston nut
  • FIGS. 10-13 show shifting rings/throttle rings as individual parts
  • FIGS. 14 and 15 show shifting rings/throttle rings with diameter reductions as pilot cross sections
  • FIGS. 16 and 17 show pilot cross sections in the shifting ring
  • FIGS. 18 and 19 show adjustable pilot cross sections.
  • FIG. 1 shows a part of a vibration damper 1 of arbitrary design.
  • a piston rod 5 and its piston 7 are guided with freedom of axial movement in a cylinder 3 .
  • the piston arrangement divides the damping medium-filled cylinder 3 into a working space 9 on the side where the piston rod is located and a working space 11 on the side opposite the piston rod.
  • the main component of the piston arrangement is the piston body 13 , which contains connecting channels 15 , 17 equipped with valve disks 19 , 21 for both directions of flow.
  • the connecting channels 15 and the valve disks 19 form a compression stage valve 23 , which generates a damping force when the piston rod travels inward.
  • the tension stage valve 25 which acts in the outward travel direction of the piston rod, consists of the connecting channels 17 and the valve disks 21 .
  • the valve disks are pretensioned onto the piston body and release the outlets of the connecting channels when a certain opening pressure acting on the valve disks is present in the connecting channels.
  • Adjacent to the valve disks 19 , 21 are the support disks 27 , 29 , which support the valve disks.
  • the package between the support disks is pretensioned onto a shoulder 33 of the piston rod 5 by a piston nut 31 .
  • the piston arrangement 7 includes a pilot assembly 35 , which is independent of the piston body and of the valve disks.
  • the pilot assembly 35 has a sleeve-like base body 36 , which has ring-shaped webs 37 , 39 , on which facing stop surfaces 41 , 43 for an axially movable shifting ring 45 are provided.
  • the assembly 35 is supported axially against the piston body 13 , which also has a centering device 47 for the assembly.
  • the entire assembly 35 is held in place on the piston rod 5 by a retaining disk 49 .
  • the sleeve-like base body 36 is a one-piece unit.
  • a centering nut 51 pretensions the assembly via the retaining disk 49 onto the piston body 13 , this nut being independent of the piston nut 31 , which holds the set of clamped-together parts of the piston arrangement located between the two support disks 27 , 29 .
  • the retaining disk is provided with at least one through-opening 53 for damping medium to ensure that the medium can flow unhindered both to and from the damping valves 23 , 25 .
  • the shifting ring 45 is pretensioned radially against the inside wall of the cylinder 3 , so that a frictional force is present.
  • annular gap Between the radially inward side of the ring and the sleeve-like base body there is an annular gap, which controls a flow connection 55 between the two working spaces 9 , 11 .
  • the flow connection 55 continues along the area of the lateral surface of the piston body.
  • the piston body 13 has at least one axial groove 57 , e.g., in the form of a flattened surface.
  • pilot cross sections 59 , 61 in the form of recesses are provided in the top and bottom surfaces of the shifting ring.
  • the pilot cross sections can be of different sizes.
  • the number of pilot cross sections on the one end surface of the shifting ring 59 is different than on the other end surface.
  • the pilot cross sections 59 , 61 of the shifting ring go into effect when the shifting ring 45 comes to rest against one of the stop surfaces 41 , 43 of the ring-shaped webs 37 , 39 .
  • the assembly also has a throttle ring 63 , which also forms a part of the piston arrangement.
  • This ring determines a first pilot cross section 65 , 67 .
  • the throttle ring 63 is designed with freedom of axial movement in a throttle ring groove 69 in the pilot assembly 35 , so that one or the other of the two pilot cross sections 65 , 67 will go into effect, depending on the direction in which the throttle ring moves.
  • the throttle ring groove 69 appears wider in the figures than it actually is.
  • the throttle ring 63 can move axially to only a very small extent between the sidewalls of the groove.
  • the shifting distance should at least be long enough to ensure that the throttling action of the active pilot cross section is greater than the throttling action between the exposed end surface of the throttle ring and the opposed groove sidewall.
  • the throttle ring 63 is similar to the shifting ring 45 , so that reference can be made again to FIGS. 10-13 to help clarify the explanation.
  • the shifting ring determines an additional pilot cross section 59 , 61 , i.e., additional to the pilot cross section 65 , 67 of the throttle ring.
  • the pilot cross section 65 , 67 which is determined by the throttle ring 63 , is larger than the pilot cross section 59 , 61 , which goes into effect when the shifting ring 45 makes contact with the stop surface 41 , 43 .
  • FIGS. 1-4 are intended to illustrate how the vibration damper with amplitude-dependent damping force operates.
  • the upper end surface of the throttle ring 63 rests against the sidewall of the throttle ring groove 69 , so that the pilot cross section 65 is active.
  • the shifting ring 45 is located a certain distance away from both stop surfaces 41 , 43 .
  • a comparatively large pilot cross section 65 is available, which ensures that, as the piston rod travels further inward over the course of a certain stroke range, i.e., until the shifting ring 45 comes to rest against the stop surface 41 (see FIG. 2 ), the valve disks 19 will not be lifted from the piston body 13 .
  • the further inward travel of the piston rod 5 is determined by the pilot cross section 59 of the shifting ring 45 , which is smaller than the pilot cross section 65 .
  • the damping medium can flow from the working space 11 on the side opposite the piston rod into the gap between the sleeve-like base body 36 and the inside wall of the cylinder 3 and then proceed radially inward along the end surface of the shifting ring 45 . It can then pass through the pilot cross section 59 , the pilot cross section 65 , and the annular gap between the upper boundary web of the throttle ring groove 69 and the cylinder wall, thus finally reaching the working space 9 on the side of the piston rod via the minimum of one axial groove 57 .
  • the damping medium will also be acting in parallel on the valve disks 19 via the damping medium through-openings 53 and the connecting channels 15 .
  • the valve disks 19 are lifted, that is, the compression stage valve 23 will be opened.
  • FIG. 3 shows the operating state which develops when the piston rod 5 is traveling outward and the bottom end surface of the throttle ring 63 , which, like the shifting ring 45 , is under radially outward-directed pretension and thus controlled by friction, comes to rest against the opposing sidewall of the throttle ring groove 69 .
  • the pilot cross section 67 goes into effect.
  • the pilot cross section 61 of the shifting ring does not exert any effect, because the ring is a certain distance away from both stop surfaces 41 , 43 .
  • the damping medium can now flow in the opposite direction via the minimum of one axial groove 57 into the throttle ring groove 69 , pass through the pilot cross section 67 , and reach the annular space between the sleeve-like base body 36 and the inside wall of the cylinder 3 .
  • FIG. 4 shows the state which the piston arrangement 7 reaches after the piston rod has traveled farther outward and the shifting ring 45 has come to rest against the stop surface 43 .
  • the pilot cross section 61 thus now determines the damping force characteristic.
  • Connected hydraulically in parallel is the tension stage valve 25 .
  • the distance between the two stop surfaces 41 , 43 can also influence the damping force characteristic, especially in the range of slow piston velocities.
  • FIG. 5 shows a variant of a piston arrangement 7 which is simpler than that shown in FIGS. 1-4 .
  • the throttle ring has no freedom of axial movement. This means that the same pilot cross sections 65 , 67 are used for both directions of flow.
  • the retaining disk 49 of the assembly 35 is designed as an integral part of the sleeve-like base body 36 .
  • FIG. 6 shows a solution which is identical to that of FIG. 5 with respect to the integration of the retaining disk 49 into the sleeve-like base body 36 .
  • the difference is that the retaining disk is connected here directly to the piston rod 5 by means of a thread 71 .
  • pilot cross sections 59 , 61 are designed as recesses in the shifting ring 45 and the pilot cross sections 65 , 67 are designed as recesses in the throttle ring 63 .
  • these pilot cross sections are designed as recesses machined into the associated stop surfaces 41 , 43 and into the sidewalls of the throttle ring groove 69 .
  • FIG. 8 discloses an inventive embodiment in which the sleeve-like base body 36 is made up of several parts, where the joint line is between the stop surfaces 41 , 43 .
  • a first subsection 36 a and a second subsection 36 b form an axial overlap 36 c .
  • the two-part design of the sleeve-like base body 36 promotes the use of an unslotted shifting ring 45 .
  • the shifting ring 45 is enclosed in a carrier ring 73 , which comes to rest against the stop surfaces 41 , 43 .
  • the pilot cross sections 59 , 61 can also be provided in the carrier ring.
  • the carrier ring 73 can be made of a material harder than that of the shifting ring 45 , because the sealing function is performed by the shifting ring.
  • FIG. 9 shows another modification of the arrangement shown in the previous figures.
  • the retaining disk 49 of the sleeve-like base body 36 is pretensioned by the piston nut 31 directly onto the support disk 29 and thus directly onto the piston body 13 .
  • the damping medium is not hydraulically bridged via the damping medium through-openings 53 , the shifting ring 45 , and the throttle ring 63 , which is a possibility especially during the outward travel of the piston rod, at least one seal 75 is installed between the sleeve-like base body 36 and the piston body 13 .
  • FIGS. 14 and 15 show a design for a throttle ring 63 or a shifting ring 45 which is simpler than that of the rings shown in FIGS. 10-13 .
  • the essential difference here is that the ring has diameter reductions 77 or possibly grooves on its outside diameter, which act as pilot cross sections together with the inside wall of the cylinder.
  • FIG. 16 shows a modification of the design according to FIG. 9 .
  • the essential difference is that the throttle ring 63 is installed inside the pilot assembly 35 and not directly in the base body 36 .
  • the retaining disk 49 of the assembly 35 has a fastening flange 79 for the sleeve-like base body 36 , where a threaded joint 81 is present between the fastening flange and the sleeve-shaped base body.
  • the base body thus consists of two separate parts.
  • the seal 75 against the piston body is also installed in the fastening flange.
  • the pilot cross sections 65 , 67 for the throttle ring 63 and the pilot cross sections 59 , 61 which the shifting ring 45 controls are formed by washers 83 , 85 ; 87 , 89 , each of which has appropriate openings in its outside diameter.
  • a spacer ring 91 is also installed between the two adjacent washers 83 , 89 .
  • At least one washer is held in place by a clamping sleeve 93 , which is concentric to the sleeve-like base body 36 .
  • the ring-shaped web 39 of the sleeve-like base body 36 cooperates with the end surface 95 of the retaining disk 49 to create a set of clamped-together components, where the length of the clamping sleeve 93 determines the maximum stroke of the shifting ring 45 .
  • the washers 83 , 85 , 87 , 89 , the clamping sleeve 93 , the spacer ring 91 , and an intermediate ring 97 concentric to the throttle ring 63 are threaded onto the sleeve-like base body 36 .
  • the intermediate ring 97 determines the height and radial depth of the throttle ring groove 69 .
  • the entire set of components is then clamped together by tightening the threaded connection 81 on the fastening flange 79 of the retaining disk 49 .
  • Spring elements 101 , 103 are intended to damp the arrival of the shifting ring 45 in at least one end position, the goal being to minimize the noise which the ring would otherwise produce when making contact with the washers 83 , 85 .
  • the spring elements 101 , 103 are formed by spring washers, each of which has at least one cutout 105 , 107 , which is larger than the pilot cross section 59 , 61 in the washers 83 , 85 .
  • the design according to FIG. 17 is modified in comparison with that of FIG. 16 in that the function of the washers 83 and 89 and of the spacer disk 91 are combined in an intermediate ring 109 . It is very easy to stamp the pilot cross sections 59 , 67 into the intermediate ring.
  • a shoulder 111 is provided on the fastening flange 79 ; this shoulder forms the radial and axial boundaries of the throttle ring groove 69 , and the pilot cross section 65 is machined into it.
  • the retaining disk has no undercuts and can therefore be very easily produced by injection-molding or by sintering.
  • the intermediate ring 109 is supported against an end surface 113 of the sleeve-like base body.
  • the intermediate ring is clamped between the fastening flange 79 of the retaining disk and the sleeve-like base body 36 ; the throttle ring 63 and the shifting ring 45 can be threaded onto the associated free ends before the base body 36 and the flange 79 are clamped together.
  • the rings 45 , 63 thus do not have to have slots to allow radial expansion.
  • the entire unit 35 can be fabricated independently, separate from the piston as a whole.
  • FIGS. 18 and 19 describe an embodiment of the invention in which the pilot cross section at the throttle ring 63 is adjustable.
  • the pilot cross sections 65 , 67 in the previously described variants are made with the same dimensions within the range of manufacturing tolerances.
  • the pilot cross section according to FIGS. 18 and 19 is formed within the assembly 35 by two components, namely, the piston body 13 and the fastening flange 79 , which are adjustable relative to each other.
  • the fastening flange as part of the retaining disk 49 , can be rotated in the circumferential direction with respect to the piston body 13 after the piston nut 31 has been loosened.
  • a control opening 115 with a connection to the throttle ring groove 69 is provided in the piston skirt 13 a .
  • a pocket 117 is formed in the fastening flange 79 ; this pocket can be brought into alignment with the control opening 115 .
  • the fastening flange functions as a control slide, which, together with the control opening, determines the adjustable pilot cross section.

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